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Nights for Tuesday 20 December 2016

  • Nights' Pundit - Religion

    8:12 PM.Religious studies Prof. Douglas Pratt from the University of Waikato on Oman's unique experience of Islam. Audio

  • Our Own Odysseys - Loving Haiti

    7:10 PM.Karim Dickie shares his Haiti adventures, including witnessing a Fet Gede voodoo ceremony. Audio

 

6:30 Summer Sonic Tonic - Summer

7:12 Our Own Odysseys - Loving Haiti

Karim Dickie shares his Haiti adventures, including witnessing a Fet Gede voodoo ceremony.

Abandoned St-Philippe and St-Jacques Cathedral

Voodou temple

Fet Gede voodou ceremony in Port-au-Prince

Fet Gede ceremony

Voodou ceremony in Jacmel

View of Jacmel from the surrounding hills

Beach outside of Jacmel

Antoine at Bassin-Bleu, Jacmel, where three cobalt-blue pools are joined by cascading waterfalls

Young girl with goats Jacmel

City view of Port-au-Prince from the Observatoire Boutilliers

Hotel Oloffson, Port-au-Prince, which featured in Graham Greene's novel The Comedians

Bel Air Port-au-Prince

Lotto saleswoman

Haiti's Banksy JerryGraffiti

7:30 The Sampler

Nick Bollinger revisits some of the standout albums of 2016.

8:12 Nights' Pundit - Religion

Religious studies Prof. Douglas Pratt from the University of Waikato on Oman's unique experience of Islam.

8:30 Window on the World

The number of women in prison globally is rapidly increasing. Researchers at the World Prison Research Programme have calculated that since the year 2000, the female prison population has grown by 50%, compared with an 18% rise in male prisoners over the same period.  In this programme we hear from six women who are defying the odds and are united in their passion for business, enterprise and self-employment which has allowed them to turn their lives around on the outside.

9:07 Tuesday Feature I

Five years after the uprisings of the Arab Spring, conflict within the Arab world about the role that Islam should play in political governance is more intense than ever.  The hopes of those who dreamt of a peaceful transition to democracy have largely been dashed. Political Islam has tasted power then lost it and extremist ideologies have come to the fore.
In the final episode of her series Islam, People & Power, Saudi Arabian Journalist and filmmaker, Safa Al Ahmad asks: "Where do we stand now?"

9:35 Tuesday Feature II

HARDtalk's Stephen Sackur speaks to Homa Hoodfar, a Canadian- Iranian academic recently released after 112 days imprisoned in Iran's notorious Evin prison. Why did a respected anthropologist become an enemy of the Iranian state? Reading the political mood inside Iran is notoriously difficult. Since last year's nuclear deal it seemed the relatively moderate President Rouhani was in the ascendancy. But Homa Hoodfar has reason to see things differently.

10:17 Late Edition

A roundup of today's RNZ News and feature interviews as well as Date Line Pacific from RNZ International.

11:07 Worlds of Music

Trevor Reekie hosts a weekly music programme celebrating an eclectic mix of 'world' music, fusion and folk roots.Tonight he previews some of the line-up of international and local musicians who are coming to Womad in March next year as well as an interview with with the Program Manager, Emere Wano.

Music played in this show

Summer Sonic Tonic- Summer

artist:         The Lucksmiths
song:         T-Shirt Weather

artist:         Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
song:         Heatwave

artist:         Paul Kelly
song:         Roll on Summer

artist:         The Stranglers
song:         Peaches

artist:         Lana Del Rey
song:         Summertime Sadness

artist:         Billie Holiday
song:         Summertime

artist:         John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John
song:         Summer Nights